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Posted October 12, 2011
We know you're busy people, but would you like to contribute to an even better GOG? How about taking 5 minutes of your time to make the GOG experience an outstanding one?

Our main goal when designing GOG.com was to create the best user experience in digital distribution ever. Many say we're doing it right, but we want to get even better, that's why we're launching a survey that will help us lead GOG in the way you'd like it to go. Taking part in it isn't required of course, but if you want to have your share in making GOG the best digital distribution service there is (or at least even better than it is right now) and maybe win a free game, devote few minutes of your time to answer couple questions we've prepared. From all users who will take part in the survey, we'll randomly choose 20 who will receive a free GOG game of their choice. Grab a pencil... er, a keyboards in your hands and answer the below questions for a better future for all of us :)

The survey ends on Thursday, October 27 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Posted October 13, 2011
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jgt7771: I wouldn't mind paying FULL RETAIL for a more recent game, so long as it has NO DRM. That's the only thing that's kept me away from a great deal of new games.

I am not a pirate. I will never be a pirate. I will not deal with a company that assumes I must be a pirate.

GOG does NOT do this. Amongst so many reasons, that is why GOG is awesome, and I am thrilled to deal with them. Thanx, guys.
I'm the same, I refuse to purchase games with ridiculous drm. I no longer buy any Ubisoft games for example on PC or Console as I think depriving them of not just a sale but of attention should hurt them.

Pirates are idiots if they think that they can take a game just because everyone thinks the drm is intrusive, all they are doing is fuelling the company's paranoia.
Posted October 13, 2011
And voila, done!

I'd really like the occasional new game with what's to be expected from GoG (no DRM as the biggie), but older games are the main attraction!
Posted October 13, 2011
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tetrahedron: Will the answers I enter in the survey be anonymized and who will have access to your users' answers? Age and income bracket are things that advertisers love to know about people online ...
That's a good question. We may use the aggregate information ("our average customer is in x income bracket") when approaching partners to sign contracts, and we may even disclose some of the aggregate information publicly if we desire.

We will not share your personal data with anyone outside of the company, although we will be looking over the individual results internally here. We will certainly not say to someone "Hey, tetrahedron makes a bajillion dollars a year and is in your target age market, so here's all of his personal information and please feel free to spam him," or in any other way pass along any personally identifiable information to anyone.
Posted October 13, 2011
I agree with Kohei :) Please never never never decrease the support of old titles.
Post edited October 13, 2011 by yannosv
Posted October 13, 2011
nothing will happen if i post my real age, right?
Posted October 13, 2011
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AsKiCoD: Newer DRM free games are always welcomed. I always knew that GOG would eventually need to sell newer games at some point if they want to expand. How many more good old games are out there that isn't on GOG's catalogue already?
Games that are new today are old in a few years.
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Kay: 30+ seems like a fair representation of 32.

I have 135. ;)

Kay
There could, of course, have been a choice for 200+, in which case I'd have gone with that one as I thought 30+ didn't really represent that too well.
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Beckman67: nothing will happen if i post my real age, right?
Well, if you put 105, they may go "hmm, nah, I don't believe it, he's probably 13" and change it.
Post edited October 13, 2011 by Miaghstir
Posted October 13, 2011
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Missing answer: Sometimes I buy games on GOG not because I'm actually gonna play them, ever, but because I *did* play them previously, without paying, and now that I have a job and money and *can* pay for them, they're not sold anywhere else.

Buying it here gives programmers money. Buying it second hand on eBay means it wont work on Win7, and the people who deserve it don't get money.

Of course I also buy other games to play them, but I'll buy any title I've played previously, just to clear my piracy conscience from my younger years :)
Post edited October 13, 2011 by bolt_the_dhampir
Posted October 13, 2011
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Miaghstir: There could, of course, have been a choice for 200+, in which case I'd have gone with that one as I thought 30+ didn't really represent that too well.
Wow, kudos. :)

I think there are probably many here who have far more than 30 games, seing how they sell a batch of games really cheap every weekend, in addition to other promotions. I have had a tendency to base the decision of buying on whether I like the game and how cheap it is, without considering whether I have time to play it. My game collection reflects this. ;)

Kay
Posted October 13, 2011
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Heretic777: Forgot to add this suggestion. Please make sure that the downloads are as small as possible (use max compression). This will help increase your sales because alot of people have slow connection. This is why I would never buy games from Origin because they dont compress their games, so their games takes more than twice as long to download than from other sites. Dragon Age Origin Ultimate was 27Gb on their site and only 12.4Gb on D2D which is where I ended up downloading from and it still took me 4 days.
Agreed worse if you live in Australia we still run on COPPER NETWORKS
Posted October 13, 2011
what would make GoG better?

1. Medieval Total War Gold Edition
2. Eyefinity support for Witcher 2
Posted October 13, 2011
I love GOG's amazing stance on DRM. The new stance companies are taking with DRM is EXTREMELY disappointing. The whole you must be online to play this game is a horrible way to try and take a stand against piracy....which seems to be just propulgating more and more piracy...The more DRM the more people want to crack it...for the challenge and bragging rights and such...sorry to get sidetracked....ANYWAY...the main issue is the must be online to play or authenticate etc etc...all it does is marginalize certain audiences.....i.e. thus who are deployed in a wartime environment without steady internet or internet at all....So I for one would definetly love to have all the DRM free games I can get from GOG so I(the customer) can play the games I have paid for...Thanks GOG for taking a stand as gamers, for gamers.
Posted October 13, 2011
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amix: Why would we need that? At the moment, GOG is so wonderfully unobtrusive. This is one of the main reasons I am here. I *HATE* it, if some company wants to stuff its very own clients down my throat.

All, that I would like to see would be a REST API
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/any_chance_to_see_an_api_or_csv_for_those_game_library_apps
I'd like an API too. A client that checked that I had up to date versions of the installers and all the extra goodies would be useful but an API would allow third parties to write them. One that did anything with the games themselves would be counter-productive since I normally use source ports and other mods so my installs are often non-standard. (Steam makes this sort of thing a pain)
Posted October 13, 2011
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Oradx: "Part of me thinks if you managed to pull off a working final fantasy 7 release for the PC you'd raise some eyebrows (given the box sells for about £100 online these days) "
Want me to send you a link to a bunch of fixes that make FF7 playable from start to finish? (Even the snowboarding)
Posted October 13, 2011
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Miaghstir: There could, of course, have been a choice for 200+, in which case I'd have gone with that one as I thought 30+ didn't really represent that too well.
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Kay: Wow, kudos. :)

I think there are probably many here who have far more than 30 games [snip] I have had a tendency to base the decision of buying on whether I like the game [snip] without considering whether I have time to play it. My game collection reflects this. ;)

Kay
My decisions too often don't take into account the fact that I have little time to play. But, if i purchase the games, then they are atleast already there in my library WHEN I have time to play. 30+ is barely half of the ones I own, but is certainly more than I anticipated purchasing with I first signed up for GOG over a year ago.
Post edited October 13, 2011 by photoleia
Posted October 13, 2011
GOG has very enthusiastic and knowledgeable users, some of whom write very good reviews. Improving the review system could both draw more gamers to the site and encourage more purchases, so it seems like a really good idea.

Specifically, it would be very helpful to be able to find all reviews by a specific user, and to link to specific reviews directly (since they move between the pages to which one can link). Saying "so-and-so wrote a great review for Icewind Dale, you can probably find it on the second or third page" works a lot less well than "check out this excellent review of Icewind Dale <link>!", and the latter is much more likely to get non-GOG users to check out the site.

[cue people telling me that one can already do both of these . . .]
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